Sentence examples for opened to competitive from inspiring English sources
Several large regions of the country were then opened to competitive bidding.
The $2.1 million iPhone contract was awarded in late September and revealed last week in a government document explaining why it was not opened to competitive tenders.
But opposition to the escalating costs prompted some politicians in the Netherlands and other industrial partner countries, like Denmark and Canada, to urge that the program be opened to competitive bids from other manufacturers, including Boeing, Saab of Sweden and Eurofighter, a European consortium led by European Aeronautic Defense and Space.
The EU set a deadline of Jan . 1 2003, for all of Europe to open to competitive postal services.
Other people in the health care industry said the contract should have been open to competitive bidding, by state hospital associations and hospital purchasing groups other than Premier.
The current set-up means that every few years the routes will be open to competitive tendering, a process which is likely to see the service end up being run by a private operator, or even a foreign government, eventually.
[Manager ID 244] Despite initial government rhetoric and enthusiasm about the choices opened to CCGs by a competitive market in commissioning support, CCGs soon discovered that the only game in town was some version of amalgamation of former PCTs.
But Andrew Lansley, as coalition government health secretary, wanted call centres that would take pressure off the emergency ambulance service and was determined that it should be regionalised and opened up to competitive tender.
It's not unlike the days when the long-distance telephone market, long-controlled by AT&T, opened up to competitive carriers like Sprint and MCI, now a unit of WorldCom, and the Baby Bells took over local phone service.
The analytics Salesforce lacks opens it to competitive threats.
The city comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, said the city could save money and improve service if it simply opened the contracts to competitive bidding, but the City Council has continually extended the deadline for the process.
